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In article <1992Nov6.192348.20115@ms.uky.edu> msunde01@mik.uky.edu (Mark   
Underwood) writes:

(quite a bit of babbling . . ..)

I forgot about the insulating effect of a vacuum when talking about the  
hypothermia bit.  Ok, you wouldn't lose body heat nearly as fast as in a  
snowstorm, but it still wouldn't take long for your internal temperature  
to drop below 85 degrees F (which, I think is low enough to kill . ..)  
In addition, somebody else mentioned the fact that the water-based fluids  
would boil rather quickly.  True.  This pulmonary edema effect mentioned  
by Mr. Dixon is another rather deadly effect of a pressure drop.  Consider  
that even when they're in a hurry, someone climbing Mt. Everest (for  
example) is going through a very slow pressure change with altitude - at  
most a couple of thousand feet a day, and at higher altitudes, far less  
than this.  Yet the pulmonary edema resulting from the pressure diff. can  
kill.  If we take this to the extreme and cause a *sudden* drop of  
pressure to near zero inside the lungs, I believe the result would  
resemble an *explosion* of sorts - i.e. the blood essentially shredding  
the delicate membranes of the lungs as it rushes through.  Again, I don't  
think you would have long to live.

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Mark Underwood
EE Student, University of Kentucky
Lab Assistant, UK Library Microlabs
Internet address:  msunde01@mik.uky.edu

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